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Betsy King
'Chicago City Bolo'1988

Not on view
Bolo tie with a faceted resin slide encasing a printed early twentieth-century cityscape, suspended from a twisted dark metal braided cord with cylindrical metal tips
Artist or Maker
Betsy King
United States, born 1953
Title
'Chicago City Bolo'
Date Made
1988
Medium
Silver, copper, brass, plastics, postcard, synthetic spinel
Dimensions
Cord length: 36 1/2 in. (92.71 cm) Slide: 6 1/4 × 2 13/16 × 7/8 in. (15.88 × 7.14 × 2.22 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Lois and Bob Boardman
Accession Number
M.2015.252.25
Classification
Jewelry and Adornments
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Selected Bibliography
  • Mills, Rosie Chambers and Bobbye Tigerman. Beyond Bling: Contemporary Jewelry from the Lois Boardman Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2016.